Effect of α-thalassemia on sickle-cell a
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Mukherjee, Malay B.; Lu, Chang Yong; Ducrocq, Rolande; Gangakhedkar, Raman R.; C
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Two population groups from Western India with a high prevalence of the  S gene, one tribal (Valsad) and the other nontribal (Nagpur), were studied. The  S gene frequency in both populations was similar (0.22 vs. 0.23), but not the clinical expression of sickle-cell anemia (SS): the sickle homozygo